Rosette for harness



(No Model.)

E. F. PFLUEGER.

ROSETTB FOR HARNESS. No.339,926. y PatentedApr. 13,1886.

QVITNESSES: INVBNTOR ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERNEST F. PFLUEGER, OF AKRON, OHIO.

ROS ETTE FOR HARNESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 339,926, dated April 13, 1886.

Application tiled December 30, 1885.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEsT F. PFLUEGER, ofAkron, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Rosettes for Harness, of which the following is a description.

Figure l is a central section; Fig. 4, a front view, and Figs. 2 and 3 are sectional views of modified forms.

Myinvention relates to ros'uttes for harness; and it consists in means for securing the holding-loop to the rosette-frame more strongly, as hereinafter described.

In the drawings, A represents the back plate of the rosette, which plate is of disk shape,and has its outer edge turned inwardly, to embrace and hold the edges ofthe glass plate B in front.

C is the l-oop which gives passige to one of the straps of the harness and serves to connect'the rosette to the saine. These loops have heretofore been extended through perforations in the back plate and provided with collars and riveted, as in my prior Patent No. 303,318; or their ends have been extended through such perforations and bent over; or their ends have been soldered to the outside of the back plate.

In my present invention,after punching the holes I countersink the back plate on the inside by means of a die, which produces a hollow on the inside and a bulged projection, c, on the outside, and then after the ends of the loop are passed through the holes they are embedded in a solid tilling of solder, b, which flows around the same in the hollow and fills it up iiush and smooth, thus making a solid connection between the back plate and loop, which is stronger than the other parts of the frame.

In countersinking the back plate I may punch with the die simply a countersink of conical form around each hole, and then flow the solder in this conical space around the ends of the loop and on the inside of the back plate, as in Fig. l; or I may, as in Fig. 2, de-

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they shall lie in said troughs and be filled in like manner with solder. If desired, the loop may, where it rests in the holes of the back plate, have a shoulder turned on the same to keep the loop from being forced inwardly.

For ornamenting the rosette, Ipaint, print, or otherwise aiiix a figure or letter on the back of the glass plate, and then over the whole of the back side ofthe glass I paintwith a frosted gilding of metal powder, as in Fig. 4, which gives a very handsome finish that is fully protected, and which may be used alone without a figure or letter, or be used as a background for the same. I may, however, in connection with the first feature of my invention use a polished or embossed metal plate in rear of the glass instead of the frosted gilding.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new is- A rosette for harness having its back plate perforated to receive the loop ends, and countersunk or punched outwardly, in combination with the loop having its ends extended through said holes and resting in said countersunk space, and a filling of solder flowed around the ends of the loop and iilliug the countersink, substantially as described.

The above specication of. my invention signed by me in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ERNEST F. PFLEGER.

XVitnesses:

EDWD. W. BYRN, SoLoN C. KEMoN. 

